BCH 803
Biostatistics
2
Course Description
Biostatistics: Definition; scope and applications.
Course Outline
Biostatistics: Definition; scope and applications; Presentation of data; Overview of measures of central tendency; Chi square test; Scientific writing I; (a) Biostatistics; Population and sample size; Sampling distribution; Research design; Study of some classical papers for experimental design and presentation of data; Normal; Binomial and Poisson distributions; Tests of significance; Students t test; Analysis of variance (ANOVA); One way and two way ANOVA; Regression Analysis; Simple and multiple regression; Overview of non parametric tests; Statistical packages; Graphpad Instat; Minitab; SAS; Epi Info; and SPSS